Jonathan Bishop thinks he’s been wronged. Wronged to the tune of $10,000 to compensate for the vast flood of visitors the upstart Wikipedia has stolen from the massive information resource that is his crocels network. Wikipedia, which is only the sixth or seventh most visited website in the world, is clearly sufficiently worried by crocels (Alexa are …

There is a phrase I cannot get out of my mind. It is this: “There is an increasing use in the concepts of ‘bleasure’ and ‘motif’ for understanding communications offences and collecting forensic evidence”. That word, bleasure. Why did I never encounter it while reading up on the law of tort and internet harassment? Here’s …

Wednesday 7 September is a big day. Dell and EMC merge to become Dell Technologies. I will be working for both of the firms that were my major vendors in the early days of x86 virtualisation. I am rather looking forward to it!

I believe that anti-vaccination is an ideology, a cult, but its disciples pretend it is based on science. I am entirely confident their claim is false for a number of reasons, for example: Anti-vaccinationists repeat claims that have been refuted, such as the Wakefield claim that MMR causes autism, which not even his original study supported. The …

Wikipedia is one of the most popular information sources on the internet, and one of the few widespread sources that is committed to factual accuracy rather than a specific agenda. Quacks, cranks and charlatans hate it of course and see it as part of the conspiracy. Mike “Health Danger” Adams posted a spittle-flecked rant on …

You may be familiar with Mike “Health Danger” Adams from his relentless promotion of fake medicines. It’s easy to forget that he is more than just a shill for every form of quackery under the sun: he is also a textbook example of crank magnetism. Following the warehouse explosion at Tianjin, Health Danger saw fit …

Thus screams the headline at the website of the Alliance for Natural Health, a group who would normally hates pharmaceutical companies but for some inexplicable reason seems inclined to give Burzynski a free pass. The Alliance for Natural Health is of course pimping its Action Alert round the quackosphere. They want their followers to write to their representatives demanding …

I have coeliac disease. I have always had coeliac disease, but I was only diagnosed a couple of years ago. The diagnosis is the best thing my holistic healer (i.e. my GP) ever did for me: suddenly my health history makes sense, and since diagnosis I am free of IBS, migraine and a load of other symptoms. Coeliac …

The Faculty of Homeopathy have a page summarising the evidence on homeopathy. Astoundingly, it finds that homeopathy is effective for some conditions. It has been noticed that their analysis of the evidence is, to put it charitably, upbeat. I thought I’d have a quick look at the page on randomised controlled trials. The results were …

Oh how I love a softball interview of one quack by another. In A Homeopath Answers To Skeptical Critics, a webshite littered with non-words like “wellness” interviews the head confectioner at Boiron, makers of the canonical quack remedy. Debunking? It would be rude not to.